Rotary Motion Sensor

The Rotary Motion Sensor lets you monitor angular motion accurately and is direction sensitive. With Logger Pro software, you can graph angular displacement, angular velocity, and angular acceleration.

Suggested Experiments
  • Atwood's machine experiments
  • Measuring moments of inertia
  • Torque experiments
  • Magnetic damping
  • Physical pendulum
  • Chaos (pendulum driven by a mechanical oscillator)

Example Graph showing damped physical pendulum
Graph from www.vernier.com